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Bauhaus No. 11 - Anniversary (Paperback)
Claudia Perren, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; Text written by Tarek Barkouni, Frida Escobedo, Tim Ingold, …
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Discovery Miles 4 160
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Le Pigent de la Lumiere (Paperback)
Olaf Nicolai, Heidi Specker; Edited by Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; Designed by Helmut Volter
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R967
Discovery Miles 9 670
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Bauhaus Dessau Architecture (Hardcover)
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; Text written by Florian Strob; Photographs by Thomas Meyer/Ostkreuz
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Discovery Miles 7 450
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"Art and technology: a new unity" - It was with this slogan that
the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925. The seven years in Dessau were
most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus.
This illustrated volume presents the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau in
words and pictures and offers new perspectives on these icons of
modern architecture. Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, Richard Paulick, Georg Muche, Carl Fieger and Karl
Friedrich Engemann: the architects at the Bauhaus in Dessau
realized their designs in the industrial city between the Elbe and
the Mulde rivers during the years between 1925 and 1932 and thereby
created a unique ensemble of modern architecture which attracts
visitors from all over the world to Dessau to this day. Since 1996
some of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau have been regarded as key
works of European Modernism and are included in the list of UNESCO
World Cultural Heritage Sites. They express the revolutionary aim
of the historical Bauhaus to bring about fundamental change in
society through design and architecture.
Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of
Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development
of the New Building - otherwise known as the Neues Bauen -
movement. Alongside the Modernist architecture, there is another
World Cultural Heritage site which draws in visitors from all over
the world to the region, namely the Garden Kingdom of Dessau
Woerlitz (Gartenreich Dessau-Woerlitz). In the shape of the Bauhaus
Dessau Foundation (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) and the Dessau-Woerlitz
Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung Dessau Woerlitz), two
institutions have come together to publish the first comprehensive
architectural guide on Dessau-Rosslau and Woerlitz, areas most
closely linked to the UNESCO World Heritage sites domiciled there.
The eighteenth-century Garden Kingdom of Dessau Woerlitz and the
twentieth-century Bauhaus School of Design (Bauhaus Hochschule fur
Gestaltung) have not only bequeathed the city and its surrounds
inestimable architectural urban and rural properties and spaces,
but also an associated intellectual heritage which has made a
lasting impact on the world and, last but not least, accounts for
the attraction the area holds for tourists. These and other notable
historic and contemporary buildings alike are presented in this
architectural guide which also raises issues about the nuanced
handling of this architectural and cultural legacy and of future
planning.
Established in 1919 in Weimar, the Bauhaus college for design
influenced one of the world's most important Modernist movements.
Divided into three geographic sections that follow the locations of
the school-Weimar (1919-25), Dessau (1925-33), and Berlin
(1933)-this unique travel guide leads readers through the most
important Bauhaus structures in Germany. Each section features
important sites that are given historical background. These entries
are illustrated with historic and contemporary photography, and are
accompanied by up-to-date tourist information. Throughout the book
short essays highlight significant events and figures of the
Bauhaus movement. This guidebook is an indispensible reference for
anyone traveling to Germany's greatest extant Bauhaus structures.
The Bauhaus was one of the most important schools of art, design,
and architecture, whose visionary designs continue to be regarded
as icons of modernity today. This book provides an in-depth
presentation of the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world.
It includes objects from all the phases and fields at the renowned
institution, including student works by Marianne Brandt, Josef
Albers, or Marcel Breuer, as well as works by Paul Klee, Wassily
Kandinsky, or Gunta Stölzl. Objects and materials found in the
Bauhaus buildings in Dessau - the Bauhaus Building, the Masters'
Houses, the Employment Office, and the Dessau-Törten estate - are
presented as well. The book also provides an introduction to the
history and development of the school.
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